Got A Flashlight?
Children's sermon
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Flashlight on a cell phone
I want to tell you a story today about two guys that went hiking. They were two teenage cousins that had packed all kinds of snacks and food for their adventure. In fact it had made them get off to a late start because they were buying so much. It was a great hike but then it started to storm and began to get dark earlier than usual. They found themselves in the pitch black and not knowing the trail very well ... not a good place to be. But the one cousin did have a phone which had a flashlight on it! Luckily the phone had enough battery life to light the cousins way home safely. Oh how precious and how needed that phone was.
In our Bible story today in Matthew 5:16, it speaks of people living in darkness but they have seen a great light . There are those living in the land of the shadow of death and a light has dawned. We may think we are well prepared for life and don't even realize how we need the light of Jesus in our lives until we hit a really dark moment. The cousins could not have made it out of the woods without that cell phone flashlight.
Even better than that cell phone whose battery will eventually need to be recharged, our light in Jesus will never run out. God is our "ever-ready" battery that will keep the light shining forever.
How do we apply this to our lives?
We have had a chance to know about Jesus and his good ways, but when we are in scary and difficult moments do we allow his light to guide us or do we try to do it on our own in the dark and we stumble and fall... God's word, the Bible, can be a light to our path if we will choose to turn it on by opening it and reading it.
In our Bible story today in Matthew 5:16, it speaks of people living in darkness but they have seen a great light . There are those living in the land of the shadow of death and a light has dawned. We may think we are well prepared for life and don't even realize how we need the light of Jesus in our lives until we hit a really dark moment. The cousins could not have made it out of the woods without that cell phone flashlight.
Even better than that cell phone whose battery will eventually need to be recharged, our light in Jesus will never run out. God is our "ever-ready" battery that will keep the light shining forever.
How do we apply this to our lives?
We have had a chance to know about Jesus and his good ways, but when we are in scary and difficult moments do we allow his light to guide us or do we try to do it on our own in the dark and we stumble and fall... God's word, the Bible, can be a light to our path if we will choose to turn it on by opening it and reading it.
